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Title: Little progress since Vatican’s sexual abuse summit, say activists
Author: Angela Giuffrida
Publication: The Guardian
Date: 18FEB2020
The Vatican has done little to seriously address the problem of clerical sexual abuse one year on from an unprecedented summit at which bishops and cardinals heard the testimony of victims, activists have said.
Pope Francis closed the four-day summit last February promising that the Catholic church would “spare no effort” to bring to justice paedophile priests and the bishops who covered up their crimes, but so far he has failed to implement crucial reforms to canon law that would allow that to happen.
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